Where Islam spreads, freedom dies

The Guardian has an interesting flash tool that allows you to play with the demographic projection data recently released by the UN.

Here's a graphic from it, showing Nigeria's predicted population in 2100: 732 million. More than the whole of Europe, then or now. This isn't particularly surprising because, as I pointed out in a previous post, there are more children born in Nigeria each year than in the whole of the European Union.

The Nigerian projections follow the standard pattern for states in which Muslims must compete with others for control of the country. While Muslims outbreed non-Muslims generally, in contested states the demographic jihad goes into overdrive.